Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780691169996)

The first English-language study of Jan Gossart, one of the leading painters of the Northern Renaissance

This is the first in-depth historical study of Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532), one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Providing a richly illustrated narrative of the Netherlandish artist's life and art, Marisa Anne Bass shows how Gossart's paintings were part of a larger cultural effort in the Netherlands to assert the region's ancient heritage as distinct from the antiquity and presumed cultural hegemony of Rome.

Focusing on Gossart's vibrant, monumental mythological nudes, the book challenges previous interpretations by arguing that Gossart and his patrons did not slavishly imitate Italian Renaissance models but instead sought to contest the idea that the Roman past gave the Italians a monopoly on antiquity. Drawing on many previously unused primary sources in Latin, Dutch, and French, Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity offers a fascinating new understanding of both the painter and the history of northern European art at large.

Author: Marisa Anne Bass
ISBN-10: 0691169993
ISBN-13: 9780691169996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2016
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 10.20h x 7.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2017